This Year in Campaign Financing -- Interview with Center for Competitive Politics VP Allison Hayward

National Review Online: "

LOPEZ: Should the tea party care about this report?

HAYWARD: Absolutely. It is the ad hoc, grassroots groups that have the most to fear from campaign-finance regulations as we presently practice them. They’re complicated, nonintuitive, and a real pain for compliance. And those who would regulate more are targeting “outside” groups for additional restrictions. I put quotes around “outside” because this is one expression that drives me nuts. What are “outside groups” outside of? Isn’t the political process the way everybody debates and decides what leadership and representation they want?"